Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinguished himself during the Indoor track season, particularly in the H-D-C Triangular meet in which he established a new record of 33 seconds for the 200-yard dash. He ran a smart conservative race, letting the opposition wear itself out and finishing with a fine burst of speed to beat Captain Noyes of Dartmouth to the tape after running several brilliant time trials. During the spring season he injured a leg muscle and consequently was unable to run in the Yale meet on May 21. At present he is training for the Olympic tryouts and will accompany...
From Rome last week issued a report that a Lieut. Neri of the Italian Air Force had streaked around Lake Garda in a seaplane at 463.26 m. p. h. Fastest speed heretofore recorded was 408.8 m. p. h. by Lieut. George H. Stainforth of Britain's Royal Air Force as an aftermath to last year's Schneider Trophy Race. Lieut. Neri's trial was unofficial...
...courageous flight, counseled by wise Bernt Balchen, Miss Earhart became not only the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic but also she set a speed record from Harbor Grace of 14 hr. 56 min. Advance reports of good weather she found "100% wrong." Ice on the wings forced her down into rain, fog and gusty squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds...
...fighting plane is "built around the needs of pilots and armament, the new passenger ship is built around an unusually spacious cabin for ten passengers and cargo. Twin supercharged Wasp engines, streamlined into the low wings, will pull the ship 155 m. p. h. cruising speed, 175 m. p. h. top speed. The new ships will cut United's coast-to-coast flying time from 27 hr. to 24. New York-Chicago will be flown...
Novel detail of the new Boeing is a combination of electric light and Klaxon horn in the pilot's cockpit which automatically flashes and howls if the motors are cut below flying speed while the landing wheels are retracted...